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				<span class="application">Geany</span> is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment.
				It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other
				packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment
				like KDE or GNOME, so <span class="application">Geany</span> only requires the GTK2 toolkit
				and therefore you only need the GTK2 runtime libraries installed to run it.
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				The basic features of <span class="application">Geany</span> are:
				</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Syntax highlighting</p></li><li><p>Code completion</p></li><li><p>Auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while</p></li><li><p>Auto completion of XML and HTML tags</p></li><li><p>Call tips</p></li><li><p>Many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal</p></li><li><p>Tag/Symbol lists</p></li></ul></div><p>
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